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From: "Marijean" <>
Subject: Fw: Robbs
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 11:11:50 -0600


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From: sharon brown <>
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Date: Sunday, January 09, 2000 9:09 AM
Subject: Robbs


>Can anyone look up census and other records for Alexander Co.?
>Also, my ggf had two daughters who possibility died there. I'm interested
>in cemetery records
>The girls are Minnie Robbs born and died in 1878. The second is Eliza E.
>Robbs, born in 1875 and died in 1873. The area was Clear Creek. John H.
>Robbs are Sarah D. King Robbs were the parents. They owned land there and
>spent time there and in Pope Co.
>
>
>James W. Robbs was John's father. He also lived in Alexander Co. He and
>wife, Catherine Randolph lived there in 1870 with sons James Newton and
>Stephen Sherman. They had returned to Pope Co. in 1880, probably due to
>James W.'s death in 1872. James was in the Calvary and is buried at
>Lindseys at McClure.
>
>It appears that James and Catherine had two daughers, Rachel and Eliza.
>They are in the 1860 census at Pope Co. as very small children, but are not
>in the Alexander Co. census with their brothers. They could also be buried
>in Alexander Co.
>Thanks...for any information you may have. Is there a certain library that
>could have any of these records?
>Sharon Robbs Brown

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